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Thank you for visiting the web site of Advocate Alliance Group ("AAG"). Your privacy is important to Advocate Alliance Group, and we go to great lengths to protect it. This Privacy Statement applies to the online collection of personal information via websites operated by Advocate Alliance Group and its worldwide affiliated companies and subsidiaries. This Statement does not apply to information collected in any other way, including offline.
This website may contain links to sites and services maintained by others. This Privacy Statement does not reflect the privacy practices of those sites or services.
Highlights
What personal information is collected and how is that information used?
We collect information about our users in these ways: directly from the user (for example, when ordering a product, registering an account, or signing up for a newsletter), from our web server logs, and through cookies and similar technologies.
We use the information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you.
We do not share with others any of the information you provide, unless we say so in this Privacy Statement, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
How is my personal information protected?
We have implemented certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
We store the information about you in a data center with restricted access and appropriate monitoring.
We use intrusion detection and virus protection software.
Despite these measures, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.
Who has access to the personal information?
We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other customer data to others, and we will not make your personal information available to any unaffiliated parties, except our approved agents and contractors, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement.
We rely on some of our affiliates for support of the products and services we offer, and we share some of our back-office functions with other Advocate Alliance Group companies; our affiliates are all required to preserve the confidentiality of any personal information they may access.
We will not disclose any personal information to unaffiliated third parties except as necessary to service the account; to enforce the terms of use; to meet our obligations to content and technology providers; to share information, which you submitted through a form on this website and consented to us sharing, with our attorney customers for advertising purposes; or as required by law.
How are cookies and similar technologies used?
In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising, we may use cookies, clear gifs (web beacons), ad tags and similar technologies to store and help track information about you.
Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.
We do not share your personal information (information that could identify you personally) with any third-party analytics provider, advertiser, ad server or ad network.
Full Privacy Statement
What personal information does Advocate Alliance Group collect and how do we use it?
We collect information about our users in these ways: directly from the user, from our web server logs, and through cookies and similar technologies. We use the information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. We don't share any of the information you provide with others, unless we say so in this Privacy Statement, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
User-Supplied Information
When you register for our services or order products via our site, we ask you to provide some personal information, for example, your name, address, phone number, email address, payment card information, and/or certain additional categories of information resulting from use of our websites and services, such as research requests. We keep this information in a contact database for future reference, as needed. We may use certain information you provide to offer you products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may choose not to receive such offers and communications from us when you register. You may also opt out (unsubscribe) as described below.
Advocate Alliance Group promotions:
If you contact us for customer support, we may ask you to provide information about your computer or about the issues you are trying to resolve. This information is necessary to help us answer your questions. We may record your requests and our responses for quality control purposes.
Websites that Advocate Alliance Group hosts for law firm and attorney customers may allow you to submit information to the law firm via a contact form or online chat. Any information that you voluntarily submit through the site may be shared with and stored by Advocate Alliance Group so that Advocate Alliance Group may provide services to the law firm or attorney. Please do not submit any Sensitive Information through the website contact form or online chat.
Web Server Logs
When you visit our website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. Our servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:
Your unique Internet protocol address
The name of your unique Internet service provider
The city, state, and country from which you access our website
The kind of browser or computer you use
The number of links you click within the site
The date and time of your visit
The web page from which you arrived to our site and/or other web pages you have visited
The pages you viewed on the site
Certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website(s)
The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use, and improve the user's experience.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, we may use cookies, clear gifs (web beacons), ad tags, and similar technologies to store and help track information about you. Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our sites during your visits. Cookies allow us to save passwords and preferences for you so you won't have to reenter them each time you visit.
We may present advertising through ad servers and ad networks, including Google, to website visitors using a variety of technologies such as web beacons, pixels, ad tags, and cookies. This allows us to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to customize the advertising and content you receive on our site, to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our site and to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. Further, you may see Advocate Alliance Group ads on this website and on other internet websites and web applications based upon your visits to this website. Please keep in mind that we do not share your personal information with any third-party advertiser, ad server or ad network.
How Can You Control Cookies?
The use of cookies and similar technologies is relatively standard. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You may refuse to accept cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider's website via your help screen. Please refer to All About Cookies for information on commonly used browsers. Please note that by disabling or blocking any or all cookies, some features of the website may not operate as intended, or you may not have access to features or personalization available through the website. You can also refuse to accept Flash cookies from this website using Adobe's Flash management tools.
You can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ad Settings.
By visiting this website, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Third Party Services
We may use services hosted by third parties, such as Google Analytics, to improve the website, assist in providing our services, help us understand our customers' use of our products and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including your IP address or cookies. If these third party services collect information, they do so anonymously and in the aggregate to provide information helpful to us such as website trends, without identifying individual visitors.
California - Do Not Track Notice
Our web services do not alter, change, or respond upon receiving Do Not Track (DNT) requests or signals in browsers. As described in more detail above, we track user activity using web server logs, cookies, and similar technologies. Information collected in web server logs helps us analyze website usage and improve the user's experience. Cookies allow us to offer you a customized experience and present relevant advertising to you.
How does Advocate Alliance Group protect the personal information that it collects?
We have implemented certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, some of our websites are protected with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. Also, we store the information about you in a data center with restricted access and appropriate monitoring, and we use a variety of technical security measures to secure your data. In addition, we use intrusion detection and virus protection software. However, please note that we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.
Also, please note that we may store and process your personal information in systems located outside of your home country. However, regardless of where storage and processing may occur, we take appropriate steps to ensure that your information is protected, consistent with the principles set forth under this statement.
Who has access to the personal information?
We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other customer data to others, and we will not make your personal information available to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:
Information that you have submitted through a form on the website and consented to us sharing with third-party lawyers or law firms for advertising purposes.
To agents and/or contractors who may use it on our behalf or in connection with their relationship with us (for example, we may use third parties to help us with promotional campaigns).
Information that is submitted through a contact form or online chat on law firm and attorney websites hosted by Advocate Alliance Group may be shared with or referred to an unaffiliated attorney if that law firm or attorney is unable to assist with your matter.
As required by law, in a matter of public safety or policy, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if we are acquired by another company or if we are liquidated during bankruptcy proceedings), or if we believe in good faith that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.
We also rely on some of our affiliates for support of the products and services we offer, and we share some of our back-office functions with other Advocate Alliance Group companies. Our affiliates are all required to preserve the confidentiality of any personal information they may access.
We will not disclose any information about your usage to unaffiliated third parties, except as necessary to service the account, to enforce the terms of use, to meet our obligations to content and technology providers, or as required by law. Your access to some of our services and content may be password protected. We recommend that you refrain from disclosing your username(s) and password(s) to anyone. We also recommend that you sign out of your account or service at the end of each session. You may also wish to close your browser window when you have finished your work, especially if you share a computer with someone else or if you are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Opting Out Policy
You may opt-out of having some of your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes when providing us with this information. You may also decline to provide certain personal information to us and/or refuse cookies in your browser, although some of our features or services may not function properly or at all as a result.
If you no longer wish to receive newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by completing the opt out form here: OPT OUT FORM. You may continue to receive email communications from us for up to ten (10) business days from the time we receive your unsubscribe request. Please note that Advocate Alliance Group can only control its own mailing list and policies. Third party advertisers that maintain their own mailing lists may send communications that advertise our services, and you may need to contact these parties directly in order to stop receiving their communications.
Questions?
If you have any additional questions or concerns related to this statement and/or our practices, please email us mypreference@transvaginalmeshlawsuit.help.
Privacy Statement Changes
If our information practices change in a significant way, we will post the policy changes here. This Privacy Statement was last updated on April 10, 2015.